Liu Xicheng, pen name Yi Yan, born in 1935, Han nationality, born in Changle, Shandong Province, is a researcher of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. 65438-0957 graduated from the Russian Language and Literature Department in Peking University, and 65438-0979 joined the Chinese Writers Association. He has served as the translation department of Xinhua News Agency, the translator, editor and reporter of foreign and domestic departments, the head of the literary criticism group of People's Literature, the former secretariat secretary and party secretary of China Folk Writers Association, the executive vice chairman of the fourth Council, the editor-in-chief of the magazines of Folk Literature, Folk Literature Forum, Selected Literary Criticism of China and Hot Literature, the editorial director of the Literary and Art Newspaper, and the researcher of the theoretical research office of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Vice President and Secretary General of China Contemporary Literature Research Association, Vice President of China Tourism Culture Society, Third Vice President and Second President of China Popular Literature Society, and Director of China Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. At present, he is the executive director of China Oriental Culture Research Association, a member of the National Folk Culture Protection Project Expert Committee of the Ministry of Culture, a member of the Folk Culture Rescue Project Expert Committee of the China Folk Writers Association, the chairman of the China Mythology Society, and the president of the Beijing Shandong Writers Association.
As a theorist and explorer, he has made fruitful achievements in folk cultural traditions, intangible cultural heritage protection, and research on the academic history of folk literature and art in recent years. His works, such as Primitive Art in China, Symbol-An Investigation of a Folk Culture Mode, Academic History of Chinese Folk Literature in the 20th Century, and Folk Literature: Theory and Method, are of great theoretical significance in theoretical exploration, empirical research and discipline construction.